110 BOARD OF AGKICULTUliE. [Pub. Doc. 



STABLE VENTILATION.* 



BY JAMES B. PAIGE, D.V.S., VETERINARIAN TO THE BOARD. 



I know of no agricultural topic upon which there is as 

 great a diversitj^ of opinions as u[)on the subject of the lecture 

 at this session. 



Every farmer, large or small, educated or uneducated, 

 rich or poor, seems, in this matter of stable construction and 

 ventilation, to be a "law unto himself." From the brains 

 of the farmers there have been evolved plans of stables and 

 systems of ventilation without numl)er ; and, strange as it 

 may seem, there are no two alike, with the exception of the 

 old-style New England stable ; and each has been equipped 

 with a ventilating system peculiar to itself, except that in the 

 old stable no especial provision was made for ventilation. 



If we take the more modern stables of the better class, 

 those, for instance, that have been erected on our best stock 

 farms during the past decade, w^e find that this same wide 

 variation respecting general arrangement and provisions for 

 ventilation exists. This wide variation must have been a 

 necessity to a greater or less extent, so far as general plans 

 were concerned. 



The style of architecture and arrangement of each have 

 been largely influenced by the contour of the surface of the 

 site, position of other buildings, special purpose for which it 

 was intended, etc. 



If there is this great diflference in architecture and plans to 

 be found, there is still a greater difterence to be noted in the 

 systems of ventilation that have been introduced into them. 

 In no two are the systems alike in every particular, and in 

 many of them we find the arrangement entirely di fie rent in 

 principle and detail. In some instances there are ventilators 



* Abstract of paper, illustrated by stereoptieon. 



